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Video: Watch Excerpt from DOMINADOR GONZALES: NATIONAL ARTIST, Virgin Labfest 2023
by Oliver Oliveros - Jun 23, 2023

Stage vets Joel Saracho (Dominador) and Rikki Benedicto (Oliver), together with young actor AJ Sison (Edward), own the stage in 'Dominador Gonzales: National Artist,' an entry to the 18th edition of Virgin Labfest, presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Writer’s Bloc, and Tanghalang Pilipino.

Video: Watch Excerpt from TULOY ANG PALABAS, Virgin Labfest 2023
by Oliver Oliveros - Jun 5, 2023

Shamaine Buencamino and Rissey Reyes-Robinson star in Layeta Bucoy’s 'Tuloy ang Palabas,' an entry to the 18th edition of Virgin Labfest, Set B, presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Writer’s Bloc, and Tanghalang Pilipino.

BWW Review: DANI GIRL's Best Feature Lies In Its Childlike Heart
by Jude Buot - Aug 17, 2019

'She's perfect!' That was our immediate reaction after seeing The Sandbox Collective and 9 Works Theatrical's restaging of a?oeDani Girla?? at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium at RCBC Plaza in Makati. We are, of course, alluding to Felicity Kyle Napuli, who is gifted with such a pristine singing voice and, at such a young age, exhibits incredible acting maturity. With this remarkable performance (she was last seen as young Nala in the first international tour of Disney's a?oeThe Lion Kinga?? and as one of the lead actors in a?oeMatilda The Musicala??), Napuli is undoubtedly the child actor to watch for in the Manila theater scene.

Photo Coverage: DANI GIRL Returns to the Stage; Show Runs Now Thru Sept. 1
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 12, 2019

Appropriate for all audiences, starting at age six, DANI GIRL, the musical by Michael Kooman (composer) and Christopher Dimond (book writer and lyricist), has returned to the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, in Makati City.

BWW Interview: DANI GIRL Cast Talks Challenges, Gets Ready For Opening Night, Aug. 10
by Jude Cartalaba - Aug 7, 2019

Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond musical DANI GIRL is back. Just like its first staging in 2014, also directed by Toff de Venecia, the production emphasizes finding hope amid the world of pain and suffering in the lives of cancer-stricken children.

Photo Coverage: DANI GIRL Cast Visits Cancer-stricken Kids; Acclaimed Musical Returns Aug. 10
by Jude Cartalaba - Jul 26, 2019

The cast of DANI GIRL came out to play and comfort the pediatric cancer patients at Child Haus on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.

Review Roundup: KUNG PAANO MAGHIWALAY; Show Closes 6/4
by Oliver Oliveros - May 30, 2017

The Egg Theater Company (ETC), which stages Filipino plays, and theatrical venue Pineapple Lab, present award-winning playwright and ETC co-founder George de Jesus III's 'Kung Paano Maghiwalay,' which tackles the subject of relationships on the brink of breaking up.

Photo Coverage: LORENZO, A New Rock Musical
by Jory Rivera - Sep 14, 2013

Multi-awarded Filipino film actor Christopher de Leon, via Green Wings Entertainment Network Inc., is the executive producer of 'Lorenzo,' a new rock musical, which features music--a mix of rock and soaring ballads--by Maestro Ryan Cayabyab and book and lyrics by Juan Ekis, Paul Dumol and Joem Antonio. Its Philippine premiere closed earlier today at SDA Theater, 5/F College of Saint Benilde in Malate, Manila.

Review Roundup: LORENZO, A New Rock Musical
by Lee Cundangan - Sep 11, 2013

Multi-awarded Filipino film actor Christopher de Leon is the executive producer of 'Lorenzo,' a new rock musical, featuring music by Maestro Ryan Cayabyab and book and lyrics by Juan Ekis, Paul Dumol and Joem Antonio. It runs at SDA Theater, 5/F College of Saint Benilde in Malate, Manila until Saturday, September 14 with 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. performances.

BWW Interviews: BONA's Eugene Domingo, Edgar Allan Guzman
by Oliver Oliveros - Sep 27, 2012

Despite criticisms that this Layeta Bucoy-penned play was loosely based on its celluloid inspiration, Philippine Educational Theater Association's BONA still gratuitously provokes and disturbs its audience.

Photo Coverage: First Look at BONA, Starring Eugene Domingo, Edgar Allan Guzman
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 25, 2012

Philippine Educational Theater Association's (PETA) stage adaptation of the late Filipino film auteur Lino Brocka's "Bona," starring award-winning film actors Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman, written by Palanca winner Layeta Bucoy, and directed by theater stalwart Soxie Topacio, opened last Thursday, August 23 at the PETA Theater Center.

BONA: Lino Brocka’s Film Gets Stage Adaptation, Now thru 9/23
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 24, 2012

A past entry to both Metro Manila Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, BONA, a critically-acclaimed work of Catalino Ortiz Brocka aka Lino Brocka (1939-1991) that gave the "superstar in Philippine entertainment industry," Nora Aunor, her Best Actress trophy at the Gawad Urian in 1980, will soon come alive through a stage adaptation by Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) starting today, August 24 until Sunday, September 23 at PETA Theater Center. The stage production stars multi-award-winning theater, movie, and television actress Eugene Domingo.

Photo Coverage: BONA’s Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman Meet the Press
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 16, 2012

Award-winning film actors Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman, who are currently in the thick of rehearsals for Philippine Educational Theater Association's (PETA) new production of BONA, a stage adaptation of the critically-acclaimed motion picture of the same name, directed by the late Filipino film auteur Lino Brocka, met members of the press and performed excerpts from the play on Tuesday, August 14 at PETA Theater Center.

BONA: Lino Brocka’s Film Gets Stage Adaptation, 8/24-9/23
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 13, 2012

A past entry to both Metro Manila Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, BONA, a critically-acclaimed work of Catalino Ortiz Brocka aka Lino Brocka (1939-1991) that gave the "superstar in Philippine entertainment industry," Nora Aunor, her Best Actress trophy at the Gawad Urian in 1980, will soon come alive through a stage adaptation by Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) starting Friday, August 24 until Sunday, September 23 at PETA Theater Center. The stage production stars multi-award-winning theater, movie, and television actress Eugene Domingo.

Photo Flash: Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID Opens in Manila
by Oliver Oliveros - Nov 24, 2011

Manila-based theater company Atlantis Productions Inc.'s Asian premiere of Disney's The Little Mermaid could have been a spectacular float addition in today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Times Square.